Milk-bottle seal-remover, seal-replacer, and lid, combined.



J. W. KEYS.

MILK BOTTLE SEAL REMOVER, SEAL EEPLACER,AND LID, COMBINED.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1Q, 1914.

Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

INVENTOR.

14 7V Hmzzn ATTORNEY.

WITNESSES fi/w h- JEROME W. KEYS, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

MILK-BOTTLE SEAL-BEMOVER, SEAL-REPLACER, AND LID, COMBINED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

Application filed September 14, 1914. Serial No. 861,581.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEROME W. KEYS, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Bottle Seal-Removers, Seal-Replacers, and Lids, Combined, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of seal removers that are used for removing seals from bottles, jars, and the like; and the objects of my improvements are; first; to provide a simple, substantial and durable device of this character, by the use of which a seal of card board, paper, and the like, is easily and quickly removed from a bottle, a jar, or a similar container, second; to so construct a seal remover, that it shall be especially adapted to remove seals from the milk bottles now generally in use, and whereby said bottles are rescaled and also covered, for rendering sanitary, the mouths of said bottles and the contents of the containers, by preventing admission through said mouths of foreign matter, including drip from ice, in an ice chest, and also preventing flies from contaminating such surfaces of the mouths as are washed by outflow of milk. third, to provide guiding means, whereby the seal remover is centered and guided onto the mouth of the bottle. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a side elevation of the seal remover and of the upper end portion of an ordinary milk bottle, the parts being in position for puncturing a seal. Fig. 2- is a top plan of the seal remover, the parts being in the position seen in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, showing the parts in position, holding a seal. Fig. 4 is a bottom plan of the parts seen in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a vertical section through the center of one of the other various forms in which the seal remover may be made, the parts being shown in perspective.

My invention in its preferred form, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, comprises the body 1, which has flan e 1' and bosses 2 formed therewith. Guides 1" are formed on the edge of said flange and extend downward therefrom, for guiding and centering said body while the same is being lowered onto the mouth 3 of bottle 3. Body 1 has a plurality of extractors 4, rotatably connected therewith, and since said extractors are alike in construction and operation, a detailed description of one is deemed sullicient. Extractor 4 has an outwardly and upwardly inclined journal l formed on and extended from its upper end; the lower end of said extractor eing pointed, and adapted to puncture a seal 5 of card board, paper and the like. The inclination of said journal to said body, is preferably forty-five degrees, for reasons hereinafter set forth. Said journal is rotatably mounted in body 1 and extends therethrough. Handle 4: is formed with and extended from the upper end of said journal at a right angle thereto, and also at a right angle to said extractor. Journal 4' is retained in body 1, by the described inclined forms of extractor 4 and handle 4". The outer end of said handle, (see Fig. 2) is moved in the direction indicated by its re spective arrow 4, is passed over boss 2 and is thereby snap fastened in the position indicated by dotted lines 4".

In operation, with the parts in the position shown in Fig. 1, body 1 is manually lowered and is guided by guides 1 until flan e l rests upon the mouth 3 of bottle 3. his action carries extractors t downward, thereby causing them to puncture and pass through seal 5, after which, handles 5:" are rotated in. the direction indicated by their respective arrows 4 to the position indicated by dotted lines a. and snap fastened as previously described. for detachably holding said handles. By reason of the previously described inclinations of said journals and the positions of the extractors and handles, as seen in Fig. 1, the described rotation of said handles moves extractors 4 from the position seen in Fig. l, to the position seen in Figs. 3 and 4, extended horizontally beneath seal 5. While the parts are in this position, flange l" is grasped and manually lifted, which carries extractors 4, and the thus engaged seal from.

the mouth 3 of bottle 3. The describcd seai tamination of said seal. parts, lYlPlllflllifE-f the returned to said bottc,

thus removed placed and flange 1, resting on mouth 7 of bottle 7, for rescaling andcovering said mouth. The parts as described are lifted from, and returned to said bottle, from time to time, until said bottle is emptied; after which they are removed, handles 4' are reversely rotated, thereby moving extractors 4 from the position seen in Figs. 3 and 4, to

the position seen in Fig. 1. Seal 5 is then lo manually removed from said extractors, f'after which, the described seal remover is again ready for use.

While I have shown and described my invention as havingthe flange 1' and guides I1" -fo'rmed integral with body 1, it is evi- "dent that'the same could be formed of separate material and be forced onto said body,

as seen in Fig. 5, without departing from the spirit of my invention, in which case, the preferably sheet metal flange 1*, having guides l, is formed to very tightly fit on body 1.", and is forced thereon. The other parts of this form of seal remover, being the same as already described both in construction and operation, are similarly designated, and description of the same is deemed unnecessary.

While I have shown the body 1 of amin lar iorm in Figs. and i, it is evident that body P, as seen in Fig. 5, could be square, having an ornamental upper surface, or be of any other desired form and configuration within the scope of this invention; and that the iiauge 1". and the therewith formed 7 i 1"", could be removed from body 1*, which i reserve the right to do. The .rmed seal remover would be adaptremorc seals from bottles having er-ions forms, and also to act as hie button, a paper fastener or .ing fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a seal remover, a body having a flat horizontally disposed bottom surface; a plurality of journal memlv ers rotatably mount ed in said dy and extending therethrough said iournal nicnil rs being inclined at an .ctically forty-five degrees to sail bottom surface; an extractor formed on, the lower end 01" each one of said journal members and extended therefrom, said ex tractors being adapted to project vertically and to puncture and to be passed through a seal of card board, paper and the like; and

rotating means on the upper end of each one of said journal members whereby the same and the therewith formed extractor are rotated for moving said extractor from a vertical to a horizontal position and vice versa.

2. In a seal remover, a body having a flat horizontally disposed bottom surface; a plurality of snap bosses formed on the top surface of said body; a like plurality of journal members rotatably mounted in said body and extending therethrough in inclined positions; an extractor'formed on the lower end of each one of said plurality of journal members and adapted to extend'vertically therefrom; and a handle formed on the upper end of each one of said plurality of journal members and extended horizontally therefrom, for rotating the therewith connected extractor from the verti al to a horizontal position and. vice versa, the free ends of said handles being adapted to be snap fastened against their respective bosses for detachably holding said extractors in a horizontal position.

3. A seal remover, comprising a body having a flat horizontally disposed bottom; a flange on the edge of said body said flange being adapted to rest upon the mouth of a bottle; guides formed on the outer edge of said flange and extending downward therefrom for centering and guiding said body into register with said mouth; a plurality of inclined journal members rotatably mounted in said body and extended therethrough; an extractor formed with and vertically extcnded from the lower end of each one of said plurality of journal members, said extractors being adapted to puncture a seal of card board and to be passed therethrough; a handle formed on the upper end of each one of said plurality of journal members for rotating the therewith connected ex tractor from the vertical position to a horimntal position beneath said seal; and snap fastening means on said body whereby the free ends of said handles are dctachably secured for holding said extractors in said horizontal position. 7

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

H. C. HAHN, W. C. BENDER. 

